pint-pot
A pot containing a pint; esp. a pewter pot of this size for beer.
| [1552 in Bury Wills (Camden) 115 A thre pynt pott of pewter.] 1622 Rowlands Good Newes & Bad N. 45 Tom Tempest..fel'd him with a pintpot from a forme. 1840 Dickens Old C. Shop lxi, Another officer..came up with a pint-pot of porter. |
b. As a nickname for a seller of beer.
| 1563 Becon Display. Popish Mass Wks. II. iii. 47 b, Ye praye for..the soules of good man Rynse-pytcher and good wyfe Pyntepot. 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 438 Peace good Pint-pot, peace good Tickle-braine. |